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Today we're announcing Sardine's $70M Series C 🚀 Money moves at the speed of light. Crime moves at the speed of AI. Between these forces, trust is eroding faster than ever. We built Sardine to move faster than the threat - and it's working.

LGND 👀

zero knowledge (zk) has 2013-2015 deep learning vibes

Only because you gave me the opportunity 🙏

sometimes less is more

we’re so back

An important systems bottleneck when working with LLMs is model loading times, but if you get the details right, you can speed up standard implementations by around 20x (over 10 minutes down to around 35 seconds for Llama-2-70B). There are a few bottlenecks to numbers to think through (numbers for a p4de instance) ⏩ S3 -> disk bandwidth (10GB/s) [but it takes a lot of extra work to saturate this] ⏩ disk -> CPU memory (theoretically 16GB/s but practically 5GB/s) ⏩ CPU memory -> GPU memory (16TB/s for PCIe4) Adding these together for a 130GB model gives around 52 seconds S3 -> GPU memory. But you can do much better. In this blog post, we got it down to around 35 seconds (compared to over 10 minutes for standard implementations). Fun fact: you can reverse all of this to build fast model checkpointing (GPU memory -> S3).

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the oldest manuscript written in algebra and trigonometry, dating back to 3,550 years ago. It shows that the Egyptians used first-order equations, geometric series and a second-order algebraic equation, related to the Pythagorean theorem a² b² = c² It also describes how to obtain an approximation of π accurate to within less than 1% and one of the earliest attempts at squaring the circle.

the work is the reward

One funny thing about DAO governance is that it makes it hard to manage assets held by a collective (why vote to sell the asset you're voting with?) — but for many collectives, asset management is more than pure yield optimization Can we do better with a return to futarchy?

It’s really great seeing some friends for the first time in a couple years and picking up right where we left off. Thankful for those people.

seek credit and you'll find insecurity instead

Used to be cool to say you seed invested in a couple unicorns. Now it's like saying you seed invest.

Nurses are a different breed and I’m not sure how we’d have a functioning society without them

overthinking results from the gluttony of time

all this shitposting on twitter I might have to start kindposting up in here

Exclusive: Crypto analytics firm @gauntletnetwork, founded by a former D.E. Shaw Research quant, hit $1 billion valuation after fundraising bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

*Something special* Couldn’t be more excited for some truly amazing friends. Fully convinced they’ll shape a better world in the years to come. Congrats guys :)

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